Funke Busari Abdullahi Dare, a contestant to the post of the Nigeria Union of Journalists top office in Kwara State on Monday took his campaign to the National Orientation Chapel of the union where he laid out his manifesto and plans for the Union. In his speech Akogun maintained that the union requires people that are knowledgeable, wise, with stable state of mind and ready to take necessary actions for the general benefit of members. He said that anyone to occupy the office of the NUJ Chairman or any of the executives must be independent minded and someone who believe…
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Funke Busari The war against illicit drug has recorded another success with the arrest of a medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma. She was arrested by the Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Auchi, Edo State. The NDLEA accused Chioma of operating an online catering service, Omachi’s Kitchen, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits. The narcotic officers of the Edo state Command on Saturday 19th June, 2021, stormed her operational base at 1 Winners Way, Auchi, where she was arrested and at least 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis sativa were recovered. Chioma, 26, who…
Funke Busari There may be an end to the face-off between the Federal Government and Twitter as the Government is set to meet the microblogging giant, Twitter, on the way out. This is according to a statement signed on behalf of the Minister of Information by the Spokesperson, Segun Adeyemi. The statement said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed will chair the team. The Federal Government’s team also comprises the Attorney General of the Federation and Honourable Minister…
Five non-governmental organizations and four journalists have filed a suit against the Federal Government at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja asking it to declare the indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria a violation of their human rights under international law, order the Government to immediately rescind the suspension order, and compensate them for the violation of their rights. The NGO applicants in the suit are Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), the International Press Centre (IPC), and Tap Initiative for Citizens Development (TICD) while the journalists are Mr. David…
Funke Busari A fire outbreak from a tanker laden with fuel has been recorded in Ogun State this morning. According to Public Relations Officer, Cdr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, on behalf of TRACE Corps Commander/CE disclosed the incident along the proposed new Kara Market inbound Ibadan. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday when a trailer fell on the ground and in the ensuing gridlock caused by the incident, a tanker laden with fuel, in the hold up suddenly burst into flames affecting seven other trucks and two cars in the process. In…
A 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Cordelia Obeya whose grandson, Nnamdi Ekwuyasi was shot and killed by the police in Lagos 19 years ago has said the way to reduce extra-judicial killings in the police force is by recruiting only graduates in any relevant discipline, reorientation, and improved welfare. Speaking in memory of the late Nnamdi Ekwuyasi who was killed on June 22, 2002, by a trigger-happy policeman attached to the then Operation Fire-for-Fire team in the Falomo, Ikoyi area of Lagos, Mrs. Obeya said it is sad that the killing of innocent brilliant young men and women remains a dominant feature…
Funke Busari, Lagos A-62-year-old man, Mr. Emmanuel Madueke has been arrested in Lagos for alledged sexual harassment of his pupil. He is a school proprietor called out by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, an agency committed to fighting sexual and gender-based violence in Lagos State. He was said to have kissed a girl (names withheld) who attends a private school, Megland Comprehensive School. The female student alledged that her school proprietor kissed her during the Children’s Day celebration held in May. She said her proprietor advanced towards her and kissed her lips. But the suspect claimed that his…
Funke Busari A Nigerian returning from Pakistan, Ezenyeche Kingsley Ebuka has been arrested by the Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airpirt, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos with five pellets of heroin weighing 250grams discovered in his anus. This is contained in a statement signed by the Agency’s Spokesperson Femi Babafemi. He said the suspect had arrived the ‘D’ arrival hall of the airport on 14th June on Turkish airline flight from Pakistan with the illicit drug inserted in his anus. The statement said the suspect failed to beat the eagle eyes of narcotic officers…
Funke Busari The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has announced the array of a serving officer of a law enforcement agency, Popoola Abayomi for allegedly selling assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun state. A statement signed by the Agency’s Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi revealed this on Sunday. According to him the drug dealer who serves in the Lagos State Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday 15th June, 2021 after days of surveillance on his wife’s shop used as his sales point in Camp area of Abeokuta. One of his salesmen, a…
Funke Busari, Lagos Four suspects namely Jerry Andrew, 31, Abdulraman Supi, 27, Babangida Ahmed, 20 and Saliu Muhammad, 35 have been remanded in Correctional Centre at Kirikiri for alledgedly breaking into the Police College in Ikeja, Lagos until they are able to perfect their bail. Their remands were ordered by the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. A.S. Odusanya, following arraignment and denial of the defendants for invading the place at midnight and carting away some items. Among items said to have been carted away by the suspects are OX fans, mattress, aluminum window frames, glasses for the buildings/offices and other items. Subsequently…